I refer to the splendid young people in this nation who will become the next trustees of our legal and constitutional tradition.

But things are much the same in countries with strong constitutional traditions.

"And we don't have a constitutional tradition to resist that."

Uruguay has a long history of an independent judiciary firmly rooted in a constitutional tradition.

The country actually had been alternately dominated throughout its history by two constitutional traditions, one relatively democratic and the other authoritarian.

"Few in all that history have done half so much to sustain and enhance a glorious constitutional tradition."

I should, however, refer to the fact that the constitutional traditions are different.

Military commissions are consistent with American historical and constitutional traditions.

You do not see anything in our constitutional tradition that says you cannot be sectarian?

How strange it would be to turn away from our constitutional tradition just as others increasingly embrace it.